Numerous Austrian and international awards, recently:
“Golden Camera 300 for outstanding Contribution to the World Cinema Art” at the 33th Manaki Brothers film festival in Bitola Macedonia 2012. “Manaki Brothers” is the world’s oldest film festival that pays tribute to the creative work of the cinematographers and celebrates the visual artistic aspects of film.

Em. University professor at the Vienna Film Academy.Membership of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences since 2010.Founding member of the Lichtakademie Bartenbach, guest lecturer at various international film schools (Bolzano, Havana, FEMIS / Paris, HFF and DFFB Berlin, danske filmskol Copenhagen, FAAP Sao Paulo, Tel Aviv University, Focal Zürich, Generation Campus 2013 Moscow Film School).

Christian Berger developed the new “CINE REFLECT LIGHTING SYSTEM Berger/Bartenbach” in collaboration with Bartenbach Lichtlabor.In addition to creating new esthetic possibilities for the camera, this system gives actors and directors unprecedented flexibility and freedom.

Berger employed this system for the first time to some degree in THE PIANO TEACHER and exclusively used the CINE REFLECT LIGHTING SYSTEM Berger/Bartenbach to shoot the films DEAD MAN’S MEMORIES, NE FAIS PAS ÇA, MEIN MÖRDER, CACHÉ / HIDDEN, the commercial MASTERCARD, DISENGAGEMENT, 2008 the Michael Haneke’s film THE WHITE RIBBON, 2011 LUDWIG II, 2012 THE NOTEBOOK and 2014 BY THE SEA by and with Angelina Jolie digital in Cinemascope.